So Showtime's lurid soap opera The Borgias has a scene where Cardinal della Rovere meets Savonarola, the famous Florentine reformer. He was a Dominican. As below:
In the scene and thereafter in the show, he is dressed (as below) in some generic Hollywood idea of a generic friar, dark habit with a white cord.
It's like confusing a Marine with an Army infantryman. Any idiot could find out how he was dressed.
In the scene and thereafter in the show, he is dressed (as below) in some generic Hollywood idea of a generic friar, dark habit with a white cord.
It's like confusing a Marine with an Army infantryman. Any idiot could find out how he was dressed.
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Another irritating point. A Borgia spy is sent off to track Cardinal della Rovere and disguises himself as a friar..."a mendicant of the Benedictine order." No such animal.
Benedictines were settled monks, not mobile friars, and self-supporting, not mendicants. This kind of lazy and stupid attitude toward history pisses me off.
If this were a program about the French Revolution, you can bet all the clothes would be right and no one would be confusing factions.
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